New Russian weapon can travel 27 times the speed of sound
VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
Associated Press
MOSCOW (AP) — A new intercontinental weapon that can fly 27 times the speed of sound became operational Friday, Russia's defense...
12 killed, dozens hurt after jetliner crashes in Kazakhstan
VLADIMIR TRETYAKOV and DARIA LITVINOVA
Associated Press
ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) — A jetliner with 98 people aboard struggled to get airborne and crashed shortly after...
Thousands in Asia marvel at ‘ring of fire’ solar eclipse
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AP) — People along a swath of southern Asia gazed at the sky in marvel on Thursday at a "ring of...
Christmas typhoon leaves 20 dead in Philippines
JIM GOMEZ
Associated Press
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A strong typhoon that barreled through the central Philippines left at least 20 people dead and forced...
Israel’s embattled Netanyahu tries to fend off party rival
JOSEPH KRAUSS
Associated Press
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday faced the first serious internal challenge to his decade-long rule as...
Trump warns of ‘carnage’ in rebel stronghold in Syria
PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump is speaking out against the "carnage" involving thousands of civilians in a rebel stronghold in Syria.
In...
Relief group: 216,000 have fled homes in northwest Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — More than 200,000 men, women and children fled their homes in northwest Syria in buses, trucks and cars in recent weeks,...
Rwanda avoids US-style opioids crisis by making own morphine
CARA ANNA and CLAIRE GALOFARO
Associated Press
BUSHEKELI, Rwanda (AP) — It was something, the silence. Nothing but the puff of her breath and the...
Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved
JEFFREY SCHAEFFER and ANGELA CHARLTON
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that...
Gala Christmas Day in country for Queen Elizabeth II, family
GREGORY KATZ and JON SUPER
Associated Press
SANDRINGHAM, England (AP) — Queen Elizabeth II and her close family spent a gala Christmas Day at her...